Digital political graphics and agitprop created by Nikki Craft as part of her gender critical work, which she has pursued since 2016, addressing gender ideology, sex-based rights, women’s spaces, and female erasure. This series continues a fifty-year practice of political graphic art reaching back to Women Who Are Women (WWAW) — founded as a direct counter to Phyllis Schlafly’s Women Who Want to Be Women, and later revived for gender critical political graphics campaigns.

Image 1 (Margaret Atwood / Handmaid graphic): Digital graphic on royal blue background featuring the red-cloaked, white-bonneted handmaid figure from The Handmaid’s Tale, faceless, overlaid with a text critique by Nikki Craft with Donovan Cleckley. The text charges Atwood with “coy and cagey” linguistic evasion — invoking Orwell on truth while accepting the language of men as “women” and women as “womb-havers,” which the piece names as doublethink. It notes Atwood branded J.K. Rowling a “TERF” to distance herself, argues Rowling’s position is simply gender-critical — “for women as a sex class” — and concludes that Atwood’s disregard for her sex has fashioned her into the handmaid of her own novel. Credited: ~Nikki Craft with Donovan Cleckley.

Part of the Nikki Craft Archival Project.

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